THE TIME MACHINE

From past files of The Star News

December 26, 2013 10 Years Ago

County weighs options for use of the campus building As crews move Northcentral Technical College from the current campus building to their new facility in the Medford industrial park, Taylor County is left trying to figure out what to do with the extra space.

The campus building and ag center building were built as part of a UWCenter campus in Medford. When the university system closed the campus in Medford, the county leased the campus building to NTC while converting the former science building into an Agricultural Service center housing the federal Farm Service Agency and Natural Resource Conservation Service offices as well as the local UW-Extension office and the county conservation department.

The challenge for the county is the ag center building was built in 1971 and has needed costly upgrades over the years.

December 30, 1998 25 Years Ago

Public to get say on sales tax issue next Wednesday With Taylor County officials looking at enacting a 0.5 percent county sales tax, an informational meeting to discuss the pros and cons of the issue will be held next Wednesday evening, Jan. 6.

The meeting will be held at the Multipurpose Building in the Fairgrounds at Medford beginning at 8 p.m.

December 27, 1973 50 Years Ago

Junior High Building Project Shaping Up; New Jobs Set The Medford Area School District board met recently to review phase one of the junior high school renovation project and to summarize approved plans for the completion of phases two and three and a portion of phase four.

Approved during the school board meeting was the closing of two schools, taking steps to conserve energy in the entire district, accepting teachers’ resignations and make allowance to the bus transport contractor for increasing costs of gasoline.

December 30, 1948 75 Years Ago

Brewery is Closed; Beer Goes in Sewer The Medford Brewery, which has not been in operation for several weeks, was closed for the present Wednesday when the last of 550 barrels of beer was swallowed up by the sewage disposal plant, according to C.A. Fleming who is receiver for the State Bank of Medford.

The receiver stated yesterday that efforts had been made to dispose of the product that was in the vats, but that when these failed it was necessary to dump the beer in the sewer line to preserve the equipment in the plant.

December 27, 1923 100 Years Ago

Auto License Follows Car, Not the Owner The license that an auto owner obtains from the secretary of state now attaches to the car and not the owner, in accordance with a changed provision to the state vehicle registration law.

Heretofore, the license was a permit for a certain person to own and operate a definitely described car. Were he to sell that car and acquire another, he kept the license plate and by payment of 50 cents to the secretary of state obtained a change to his permit applying to the new car.

December 31, 1898 125 Years Ago

A Growing Institution Since the property of the Medford brewing plant passed into the hands of W.m. Kurz, a great number of improvements have been added and the business conducted along business lines. At the present time our home brewery is producing as fine a product of pure beer as there is in the market, not excelled by even the famous Milwaukee and St. Louis beers. All things being even, the Medford brewery should receive the patronage of our home people and the farmers and business men who benefit by having a home institution of this character located here should do all in their power to encourage Mr. Kurz in his undertaking.